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3 giorni fa · The second British Empire, founded after the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s, was dramatically expanded in India, other parts of Asia, and Africa. There was little friction with other colonial powers until the 1890s. British foreign policy avoided entangling alliances.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,...
- Historiography of the British Empire
Historiography of the British Empire. The historiography of...
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1 giorno fa · The British established their first empire (1583–1783) in North America by colonising lands that made up British America, including parts of Canada, the Caribbean and the Thirteen Colonies. In 1776, the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies declared itself independent from the British Empire, thus beginning the American ...
2 giorni fa · Terminologia. L'Atto di Unione del 1707 dichiarò che le monarchie d'Inghilterra e Scozia fossero "unite sotto l'unico nome di Regno di Gran Bretagna".Pertanto, in tutti gli atti che riguardarono il Regno da quel momento in poi, il dominio britannico venne identificato come "Regno di Gran Bretagna", "Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna" e "Regno Unito".
5 giorni fa · Although historically connected to the British Empire, any country can apply to be a member of the Commonwealth, regardless of its intersection with Britain’s colonial past. The Commonwealth consists of 54 countries, including the United Kingdom .
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- The Commonwealth is an association of countries across the world. Although historically connected to the British Empire, any country can apply to b...
- The British monarch is head of the Commonwealth. In some Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, the monarch sym...
- The Statute of Westminster in 1931 established the first countries to become autonomous while pledging allegiance to the British crown. Sovereign s...
- The smallest Commonwealth countries are Nauru, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, and Tuvalu, a country comprising nine coral isla...
1 giorno fa · England, predominant constituent unit of the United Kingdom, occupying more than half of the island of Great Britain. Outside the British Isles, England is often erroneously considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and even with the entire United Kingdom. Despite the political, economic ...
Hyam valuably analyses the different forms of empire and uses comparative examples, especially French ones, to explain the variations of empire and to eradicate any interpretation of the British Empire as one vast centrally organised hegemony.
